Actually I agree with EoA on this. The courts have tried to telegraph to the pilots that they need to get rid of USAPA and then take care of the integration issue themselves.
Where USAPA's Founding Children got it wrong is in not forming USAPA before the integration process began. They needed to oust ALPA before Nicolau was ever involved. But they tried to play games and threaten ALPA and then bolted, but alas it was too late, the Nic list had been published and accepted. Now USAPA has to try peddling the idea that the Nic list is merely one of many bargaining positions with no greater credence than the obviously discriminatory one they dreamed up. That has gained no traction anywhere it's been heard and so they continue with their "Don't just do something, Stand there" strategy, which too violates their duty to represent the west pilots who are entitled to timely negotiation of a joint contract, just so that the east F/O's can occupy their seats before No Bump No Flush goes away.
Everyone has tried to tell the pilots they need to stand up and be responsible for themselves and if that means dismantling and grinding up USAPA, and replacing it with a bipartisan union, so be it.
